Opinion

September 12, 2022

How we built a capital-efficient organisation

With fresh capital harder to find, capital efficiency is the new hot topic for startups


Leapsome cofounders Jenny von Podewils and Kajetan von Armansperg

With fresh capital harder to find, there’s a new hot topic for startups: capital efficiency. 

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